Give my View. Ts&Cs of an undemocratic nature.
This organisation want it all. There is no simple option to opt out of anything and the terms to do so are ridiculous.How on earth can a Local authority engage such a dodgy organisation? Undermines completely the credibility of 'listening'pated to save others the trouble.I wonder of Cllr Manro has a comment to make? Or any councillors of any party come to that?Give My ViewContact usPrivacy policyThis privacy policy contains important information about who we are, and how and why we collect personal information from you. It explains what personal information we collect about you via the Give My View platform (givemyview.com) (the "Site"), why we collect it, how we use it and your rights in relation to it.When we refer to personal information, we mean any information which could directly identify you (such as, your name or e-mail address) as well as information which could indirectly identify you. Information which could indirectly identify you means information which could identify you when combined with other information we hold about you.When we refer to "us", "we" or "our", we mean Built-ID Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (registration number 10311228), and with registered address of Minerva House, Lower Bristol Road, Bath BA2 9ER. Our correspondence address is: Hurst View, Jacobs Well, Surrey, GU4 7QS.Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you have any questions, comments or concerns about any aspect of this policy, please contact us at info@givemyview.com or call +44 (0) 7547 780 640.1. WHAT BASIS DO WE HAVE FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?We will only process personal information where we have a lawful reason for doing so. The lawful basis for processing personal information by us will be one of the following as set out in section 2 below:the processing is necessary for the pursuit of our legitimate business interests (including that of the delivery and the promotion of our Site or services) so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests; orprocessing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; orwhere you have given your consent to the processing.2. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND PROCESS?We collect personal information from you when you access our Site, participate in Give My View polls and surveys or if you contact us. We either collect this personal information from you directly (such as when you participate in a poll or answer a free-text question on our Site) or indirectly (such as your browsing activity on our Site).This section sets out the different ways in which we collect and use personal data from you.2.1. Information we automatically collectCollection:We collect certain information relating to all visitors to our Site (whether they choose to participate in a poll or not). Indirect personal information consists of:information about the device you used to access the Site, such as the internal protocol (IP) address of the device, the browser software, operating system, date and time of access; andinformation on how you use our Site (for example, what pages you looked at).Use:We use the personal information we collect when you visit the Site to:Use: enable you to use the Site (and all of its features);Analytics: analyse how our Site is being used, so that we can constantly improve it; andStatistical purposes: collate anonymous, aggregate statistics on the performance of parts of our Site or member profiles (for example, the number of people answering a poll over a defined period of time).Our reason for using your data in this way:Legitimate interests (for essential cookies): where our use of your personal information is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (unless there is a good reason to protect your personal information which overrides our legitimate interests).Consent (for non-essential cookies): we collect and use your personal information in this way where you have given us clear consent to do so. Please see our Cookies policy below for more information about how we use Cookies.2.2. When you participate in a Poll on our SiteCollection:We run are a digital consulting business that engages with individuals to collate information and opinions about particular projects, through targeted campaigns. You are able to give you views on projects that relate to, or may affect, you through our Site.When you participate in a poll or survey through our Site, we may ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and/or postcode) depending on the nature of the project or campaign. We may also ask you other questions that relate specifically to the poll that you participating in. For some polls, you may be able to submit answers without providing your contact information but for others we will require you to enter your contact information if you wish to participate. You will have control and oversight of the personal information that you choose to submit to us at the point you are submitting your responses.The information you provide as part of the Give My View polls and surveys will be shared with our clients. Our clients are organisations that have engaged us to create the poll or survey, and collate and/or analyse the results. Such organisations may include property developers, local councils and other organisations looking to gain insight into public opinion on a project or campaign ("Clients").As part of the services we provide to our Clients, we may also be required to share your personal information their communications agencies. For more information on how we share your personal data, please see the "How will we share your personal data?" at section 3 below.Please note that you can still vote anonymously by choosing not to provide this information, but it is only by creating a profile and providing your name and email address that you can donate points earned by voting to a local charity.If you choose to sign up via Google or another third party network, we will collect certain additional personal information from you (such as an overview of your profile with that third party). If you choose to use a third party to sign up, please consult the relevant third party’s privacy policy for information on how they use and share your data.In some instances, our Clients may request additional information from you as part of their project. Such information is collected in accordance with their own privacy policy.Use:We use the personal information we collect from you when you participate in a poll or survey as follows:Access: to give you access to information about the project relating to the poll;Submit responses: to allow you to participate in the poll by responding to our questions or requests;Communication: to communicate with you about the poll or project or send you information about us or our services that we believe may be of interest to you; andAnalytics: perform analytics (such as trends, sales intelligence, marketing effectiveness uptake and progress) to improve our Site or services;Provide services to our Clients: we will pass your information and poll or survey results to our Clients and other third parties as part of the services we provide to them.We may use your contact information to send you relevant updates by email, text message or phone that we may circulate from time to time, news about events we are organising or participating in, and/or other information about us and the services that we believe may be of interest to you. You can specify your contact preferences by using the options provided on our emails or by emailing info@givemyview.com. We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal information for promotional purposes, which means we do not need your consent to send you promotional communications related to your account. However, where consent is needed, we will ask you for this separately and clearly.We like to keep you posted on everything you need to know about our Site. We usually do this by e-mail. You can choose to stop receiving communications from us at any time by unsubscribing from our e-mails, or by contacting us on info@givemyview.com or +44 (0) 7547 780 640. We may ask you to confirm your marketing preferences if you instruct us to provide further services in the future or if we’re required to do so by law or a restructure of our business.Our reason for using your data in this way:Legitimate interests: where our use of your personal information is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party (unless there is a good reason to protect your personal information which overrides our legitimate interests).2.3. Other uses for your personal informationWe may also use personal information to:assist us in any disputes, claims or investigations; andcomply with our own legal obligations.We will only use your personal information for those purposes where it is necessary to do so, and (in any case) our use of your personal information will continue to be governed by this privacy policy (as well as certain laws and regulations which govern our use of your personal information).2.4. ChildrenOur services are not designed for, or intentionally targeted at, children under the age of 16 year old. We do not intentionally collect or maintain data about anyone under the age of 16.3. HOW WILL WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?3.1. Sharing your personal data with our ClientsThe Site allows you as an individual to participate in and give your opinions about particular projects, through targeted campaigns. You are able to give you views on projects that relate to, or may affect, you through our Site.When we collect your personal data through polls or surveys, we will share this information with our Clients and their communications agencies as part of the services we provide to them. We may analyse and aggregate the information before sharing this with our Clients and their communications agencies and our Clients may also analyse your information to help shape their project.Our Clients or their communications agency may contact you to invite you to events or exhibitions relating to the project or to ask you for further information relating to the poll (e.g. further details about your opinions or they may ask you to provide a letter of support or otherwise, as determined by them).Our Client engaging the poll will be specified on the Site and linked to the relevant poll. For a list of the Clients we have worked with and may share your personal information with, please contact us at info@built-id.com3.2. Sharing your personal data with our suppliersWe use third party data processors who provide services to us to enable us to run our Site and operate our business. Such third parties cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do so.We may share your personal data with third parties who provide IT services and cloud hosting solutions, such as: Amazon Web Services (cloud services), including (but not limited to) Lambda, CloudFront;Heroku (cloud services); Papertrail (log management); Mandrill (email services); and Mailchimp (marketing automation and email service).3.3. Sharing your personal data with other third partiesWe may also share your personal information with other third parties, including:Communication agencies: in connection with the management of an event, in which case the details will only be used by the third party for that specific purpose;Professional advisors: to enable us to provide our services to you, we may need to share your personal information with our business partners (including professional advisers such as accountants or auditors), external service providers (for support services including accounting, events management, data entry) and/or overseas counsel;Social media sites: third parties approved by you, e.g. social media sites (such as Facebook) where we’ve obtained your consent to share your data in this way; orLegal and regulatory compliance: disclosures required by law or regulation.If a third party is considering whether to invest in our business, or to acquire all (or any part of) of our business and/or assets, we may need to share your personal information with that third party. We will only do so to the extent that it is necessary, and (in any case) our use of your personal information will continue to be governed by this privacy policy (as well as certain laws and regulations which govern our use of your personal information).Some of those third party recipients may be based outside the European Economic Area — for further information including on how we safeguard your personal data when this occurs, see ‘"International Transfers".4. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES AND APPLICATIONSOur Site contains links to other websites and applications which are operated by third parties. These other third party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own privacy policies, which are entirely separate. This privacy policy applies only to the personal information that we collect through our Site. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please visit their respective privacy policies as applicable.5. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERSFrom time to time, we may need to transfer your personal information to our business partners, who are located in territories outside of the European Economic Area ("EEA"), including in the USA, in order to provide you with the services required.Such countries do not have the same data protection laws as the UK and EEA. We will, however, ensure the transfer complies with data protection law and all personal information will transferred securely. Our standard practice is to use standard data protection contract clauses that have been approved by the European Commission or, for transfers to the USA, Privacy Shield (as applicable).6. RETENTIONYour personal information is retained by us for only as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out above. We will keep your personal information for as long as required in order to:deliver our services to our Client;respond to any queries, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf;resolve disputes;to fulfil our legal obligations or meet regulatory requirements.In general, we will retain your information for 12 months after the completion of a project you provided your view on, to allow the relevant third party to analyse project feedback and make improvements to the project.If you wish to delete your personal data from the Site prior to the end of this retention period, you may do so at any point by contacting us at info@givemyview.com.7. YOUR RIGHTS IN RELATION TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATIONUnder data protection laws, you have the right to:Access The right to be provided with a copy of your personal information (the right of access)Rectification The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal informationTo be forgotten The right to require us to delete your personal information—in certain situationsRestriction of processing The right to require us to restrict processing of your personal information—in certain circumstances, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the dataData portability The right to receive the personal information you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situationsTo object The right to object:at any time to your personal information being processed for direct marketing (including profiling)in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, e.g. processing carried out for the purpose of our legitimate interests.Not to be subject to automated individual decision making The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects youFor further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, please contact us or see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation, which is available at: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/.If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:contact us at info@givemyview.com or +44 (0) 7547 780 640;let us have enough information to identify you;let us have proof of your identity; andlet us know what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.8. SECURITYWe use a variety of security measures, including encryption and authentication tools, to maintain the safety and security of your personal information. Your personal information is protected behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of people who have special access rights to such systems and who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your personal information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other online problems, please visit https://www.getsafeonline.org/. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.9. COOKIES9.1. What are Cookies?A cookie is a small file which is placed on your device when you use our Site . Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive (or the hard drive of another relevant device).We use cookies to distinguish you from other users on our website, to tailor your experience to your preferences, and to help us improve the Site.Some of the cookies we use are essential for the Site to operate. If you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site.You can manage any non-essential cookies by clicking on our cookie pop-up. By default, most internet browsers accept cookies, but you can choose to enable or disable some or all cookies via the settings on your internet browser. Most internet browsers also enable you to choose whether you wish to disable all cookies or only third party cookies. For further details, please consult the help menu in your internet browser.You can withdraw your consent for use of non-essential cookies or manage any other cookie preferences by clicking on Manage cookies at the bottom of any page on our Site. It may be necessary to refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect.9.2. What Cookies do we use?We use the following cookies:Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are required to save your session and to carry out activities that are strictly necessary for the operation of the Site. These cookies are session cookies, which means they’re temporary and will expire when you close your browser.Functionality cookies. These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to the Site. They enable us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences.Third Party cookies. We use third party cookies on the Site to perform other functions such as analytics and advertising (as set out below).You have the right to opt out of third-party cookies by removing your consent through our Site.Cookie Name Purpose Essential or Non-EssentialBID-Authorization Application session cookie Allows your to securely access the Site, including the polls, and submit responses. This is an essential cookie so we are not required to request your consent before placing this cookie.Google Analytics _ga, _gid This cookie collects the following information: traffic source, page visits and duration, repeat visitors, browser type and version, browser language, operating system, device type, service provider and screen resolution (if on mobile). If you are logged into a Google account, Google Analytics also provides us with your age range, gender and interests. Non-essential third party cookie. We will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie.Facebook Tracking _fr, _fbp This is an advertising cookie used to deliver advertising content through Facebook. Non-essential third party cookie. We will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie.9.3 Third party access to CookiesThe cookies we use will only be accessed by us and those third parties named in the table above for the purposes referred to in this cookie policy. Those cookies will not be accessed by any other third party.If you 'share' content from our Site through social media websites (such as Facebook, Google and Twitter), you may be sent cookies from these third-party websites. We don't control the setting of these cookies, and we recommend you check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.9.4 How to turn off CookiesIf you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our Site.For further information about cookies and how to disable them, please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office available at: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.10. UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICYThis privacy policy was last updated in March 2020. We keep our privacy notice under regular review to make sure it is up to date and accurate. If we change our privacy policy from time to time, we will post the details of any changes here. We may also take reasonable steps to notify you if such changes affect how your personal data is processed.
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